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Bernard Malamud (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

Biography

Bernard Malamud was born on April 26, 1914, in Brooklyn, New York. The older of two sons of Max and Bertha (Fidelman) Malamud, who had emigrated from Russia in the early twentieth century and ran a grocery store, he enjoyed a relatively happy childhood. Both Yiddish and English were spoken in the Malamud household, and a great emphasis was placed on the cultural aspects of Judaism. Malamud's early years were spent going to the Yiddish theater on Manhattan's Second Avenue and reading novels by such favorites as Horatio Alger. Doubtless his later writings were...

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